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Hour 3: No more nickels? · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: On 710WOR, Mr. New York, Mark Simone. Well, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to get to this hour. Don't forget,
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  Speaker 1: it's three hours every day, nine to noon. Start at
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  Speaker 1: nine o'clock now, nine to noon every day. So you
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  Speaker 1: got the riots, the protests, France. It's normally not that
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  Speaker 1: big a deal. It's like the national pastime of France, boycotting, picketing, uh,
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  Speaker 1: work stoppage, riots. They do this every year in France.
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  Speaker 1: It always happens. But this looks a little worse than
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  Speaker 1: the usual ones. This seems a little bigger. 6,100 people
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  Speaker 1: have been arrested. They've had tear gas everywhere. This one
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  Speaker 1: seems 715 police officers have been injured. Well, it turns
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  Speaker 1: out that there's a reason for that. It turns out
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  Speaker 1: this is not just the normal French with their work strikes,
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  Speaker 1: with their boycotts, with their protests over something. This is
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  Speaker 1: a combination of forces. It's the regular French and the
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  Speaker 1: protests and all that. But this group has been infiltrated
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  Speaker 1: with radical Islamic people. Radical Islamic groups have infiltrated the protest,
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  Speaker 1: kicked them up a few notches. That's why it's more violent.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's getting uglier. And as President Trump pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: all this... uh, illegal, uh, immigration into France, not just France,
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  Speaker 1: but much of Europe. But these migrants that have come in,
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  Speaker 1: all these illegals, uh, are fueling this. I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: throwing gas on the fire. So the normal French riots
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  Speaker 1: and strikes and all that, uh, much, much worse. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where this is going to end. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. This is going to escalate. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to get, uh, pretty bad, uh, before it's over. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: You know, we don't have pennies anymore. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: may have some, but the government officially ended the penny.
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  Speaker 1: They don't make pennies anymore. And they say that whatever
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  Speaker 1: pennies are out there, you could still use them, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no more pennies. Now, they act like the penny's
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  Speaker 1: going to go away eventually. How does that happen? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any pennies here, but a penny's pretty
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  Speaker 1: well made. I mean, it's not going to crumble. They'll
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  Speaker 1: always be there. Those of you that have been saving
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  Speaker 1: pennies in a jar... I don't know what the hell
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  Speaker 1: you're going to do with them. But listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: Congress now wants to get rid of the nickel. I
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  Speaker 1: guess this is inflation. The penny is worthless now. They
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  Speaker 1: say there's no reason to have nickels anymore. What would
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  Speaker 1: anybody use a nickel for? I don't know. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: go in the supermarket or someplace and you're in line
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  Speaker 1: behind somebody who still wants to use cash. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very silly thing to watch. Who uses cash anymore? You
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  Speaker 1: pay with your phone, you pay with your credit card.
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  Speaker 1: Who uses cash anymore? You can pay with your Apple Watch.
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  Speaker 1: But they sit there and take out cash, and then
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  Speaker 1: the cashier has to count out dollars and quarters and nickels.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's where you use a penny now and then.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of silly. But they're going to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the nickel. You'll know it's really bad when the
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  Speaker 1: quarter disappears. I don't know what you know. The only
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  Speaker 1: problem with paying digitally, when you're in Rome and you
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  Speaker 1: want to throw the coin in the fountain for good luck,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to do? Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: throw your phone in there and then go get it out?
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  Speaker 1: It's not the same. You know that Skydance is officially now,
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  Speaker 1: the whole merger is complete, official. It's done. That's it. Skydance, Paramount, CBS,
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  Speaker 1: they now own Warner, Discovery. That'll include HBO. That includes CNN.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny, the uproar about CNN. They're so concerned. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I hope they don't tamper with CNN. You know, CNN
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  Speaker 1: is in last place. It's a total disaster. Fox News
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  Speaker 1: celebrating their 30th anniversary today. The number one cable news
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  Speaker 1: channel by far. By far. If you add MS Now
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  Speaker 1: and CNN together, not even half of the viewers that
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  Speaker 1: Fox has Fox is way out in front. MS Now,
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  Speaker 1: not doing so well. It's in second place, but way behind.
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  Speaker 1: Way behind. And NBC threw it out. It used to
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  Speaker 1: be part of NBC. They threw it out of the company.
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  Speaker 1: They threw it out of the building. They demanded that
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  Speaker 1: their name come off it. There's MS Now. And then
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  Speaker 1: way behind them is CNN with a couple hundred thousand viewers.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely a failure. It still has Anderson Cooper and
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  Speaker 1: Names you would know, Wolf Blitzer, but very few viewers.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know why. I mean, if a normal
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  Speaker 1: company bought that, bought a bunch of stuff, and one
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  Speaker 1: of them was CNN, they'd change it into something else.
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  Speaker 1: Something else. You'd make it a gardening channel, make it
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  Speaker 1: Real Housewives, make it old TV shows, make it a
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  Speaker 1: Law & Order channel. You'd do much better. Much better.
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  Speaker 1: But they had a town hall yesterday. with the new chairman,
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  Speaker 1: David Ellison. He's the chairman of Skydance, the worst name
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  Speaker 1: in the world, Skydance. And Anderson Cooper was doing the questioning. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: and Anderson Cooper spoke right up, demanding to know, are
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  Speaker 1: you going to tamper with CNN? And Ellison said, as
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  Speaker 1: it relates to editorial, we believe in complete and total
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  Speaker 1: editorial independence. And, boy, Anderson Cooper went right after him.
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  Speaker 1: Ellison said, we trust Mark Thompson. He's running CNN. And
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  Speaker 1: he'll continue to lead the network. So Cooper said, you're
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  Speaker 1: pledging to not interfere with the news coverage? Correct, Ellison said. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: I will not interfere. Now, I guess that reassured everybody.
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  Speaker 1: But they also announced there's going to be massive layoffs. CNN, again,
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  Speaker 1: has the tiniest ratings. They're not doing well. They don't
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  Speaker 1: make any money. There's going to be massive layoffs. So
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  Speaker 1: they will not interfere with editorial. They'll just lay off
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  Speaker 1: whoever they don't like. There's a lot of waste and
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  Speaker 1: fraud at these networks. If you're a big, successful network
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  Speaker 1: and the ratings are booming, you can afford it. But
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  Speaker 1: even a place like Fox, even a place like Fox,
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  Speaker 1: which is doing very well, it's extremely popular. Not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of layoffs, but they do cut back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: year to year to year to year. It's different every year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you used to go in the green room.
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  Speaker 1: There was a buffet. It was an incredible feast. You
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  Speaker 1: go to the buffet now, it's bananas and apples and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's not the most elaborate expensive, but
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  Speaker 1: all the networks are doing that. That's normal. But it's CNN.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to see real, real layoffs. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: see some cost cutting over there. And they deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: They absolutely deserve it. They get no ratings. Now remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is a big conglomerate they have purchased. Warner Brothers, Discovery.
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  Speaker 1: It owns a lot of stuff. Discovery, HBO, all this
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  Speaker 1: HBO Max. CNN is a little tiny thing of it.
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  Speaker 1: So you can leave it alone for a while. And
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  Speaker 1: who was it on the show this week? Was it
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  Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly? Somebody. Jimmy Fallon. Somebody said, just leave it
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  Speaker 1: the way it is. It's getting no ratings. It's dwindling
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  Speaker 1: every second. Let it just die in the vine. Let
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  Speaker 1: it just die of its own accord. Hey, a terrible
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  Speaker 1: anniversary today, October 7th. Terrible, terrible thing. The worst, most
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  Speaker 1: ugly terrorist Holocaust attack by Hamas on behalf of the
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  Speaker 1: Palestinians against Israel.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 1: it's just so horrifying. You know, you've probably, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you've never seen what really happened. The really, really ugly footage,
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  Speaker 1: the killing of babies, their throats being cut, the raping
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  Speaker 1: of women. These Hamas terrorists were wearing GoPro cameras. They
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  Speaker 1: filmed the whole thing. They videoed the whole thing. And
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  Speaker 1: some of that's been put together in a 47 minute documentary. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli, uh, Ambassador has invited Mamdani, crazy anti-Semitic Mayor Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: to come watch it. It's 47 minutes long. He said, Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: if you watch this, I think you'll understand. I think
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  Speaker 1: you'll truly understand why the Jewish state is so important. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this ambassador, being very, very naive, he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: understand anything. He's going to feel this is the way
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  Speaker 1: they are. They're just indoctrinated. This anti-Semitism is burned into people.
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  Speaker 1: They'll just think it was justified. It was justified by
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  Speaker 1: what happened. But he won't watch it. But Mamdani tonight
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  Speaker 1: will go to a vigil to mourn those killed in
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  Speaker 1: that attack. He's leaving that and actually going to a
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian event. He always looks like he's doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next act makes it clear he's not. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that Carl Heastie, he runs the state assembly. He's the
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  Speaker 1: state assembly speaker. You got the assembly, big part of
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  Speaker 1: the legislature. It's this Carl Heastie who's really, that legislature
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  Speaker 1: in Albany is the worst. The worst with their taxes,
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  Speaker 1: with their no bail, no jail, with their crazy left-wing
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  Speaker 1: kooky stuff. Carl Heastie, the leader. You know, he's been
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  Speaker 1: spotted on this very, expensive trip to Rio. He's in Brazil,
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  Speaker 1: and who's there with him? Well, this lobbyist. It's a
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  Speaker 1: low-level lobbyist that has risen up because he's friends with
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  Speaker 1: Carl Heastie for a million years. Now, who paid for
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  Speaker 1: this very expensive Rio de Janeiro vacation? They won't say.
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  Speaker 1: The lobbyist won't say. Hasty won't say. But this guy
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  Speaker 1: was his roommate at college. And since Hasty has become
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  Speaker 1: the Speaker of the Assembly, all of a sudden this
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  Speaker 1: low-level lobbyist is suddenly making a fortune. He made $ 5
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  Speaker 1: million last year. So who paid for this elaborate vacation
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  Speaker 1: that Hasty's on? Hasty won't say. And the lobbyist won't say. Hey, now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you act like Mamdani's doing nothing, accomplishing nothing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: look at this. He's entering into two contracts totaling $ 9
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  Speaker 1: million to provide gender-affirming sex reassignment care to transgender patients
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  Speaker 1: under the age of 18. Kids, teenagers. The move backs
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  Speaker 1: a policy... that the Federal Department of Justice has challenged
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  Speaker 1: as medically dangerous and illegal. Of course it is. And
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous to do that to kids. But Mamdani is
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  Speaker 1: taking money out of our paychecks and doing this. Sebastian Maniscalco.
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  Speaker 1: We love Sebastian Maniscalco. He's been on the show many times.
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  Speaker 1: Probably the biggest comedian in America right now. But a
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  Speaker 1: lot of comedians are mad at him, really mad at him.
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  Speaker 1: He's taking a lot of heat right now. Over there
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  Speaker 1: at SiriusXM, they've been redoing things. They got rid of
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  Speaker 1: the Howard Stern 101 channel. They took one of Stern's
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  Speaker 1: channels away. They created an Andy Cohen channel. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they had a couple of comedy channels. And one of
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  Speaker 1: them was, I forget what it was called, the comedy channel,
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  Speaker 1: raw comedy. It was raw comedy. Well, they got rid
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  Speaker 1: of that and they've handed it over to Sebastian Maniscalco.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a Sebastian Maniscalco comedy radio 24-7 channel.
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  Speaker 1: Makes sense. Guy's the biggest comedian in America. Makes perfect
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  Speaker 1: sense to give him a channel. Ooh, but all the
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  Speaker 1: comedians are mad at him. These comedians, Liz Mealy and
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  Speaker 1: Greg Stone and others, they're all signing petitions. They are
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  Speaker 1: all demanding that Sebastian, you know, because a lot of these...
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  Speaker 1: Comedians got exposure on the old channel and they're furious, furious.
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  Speaker 1: They got petitions. They're calling on Maniscalco to reverse course,
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  Speaker 1: arguing the revamped channel will sharply concentrate airplay only to
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  Speaker 1: the best known comedians and not the newer. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is interesting. What will Sebastian Maniscalco do? He's a really
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  Speaker 1: nice guy. He's a very nice guy. He's a very
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic guy. He's a very image conscious guy. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Will he reverse things? Will he alter the channel to
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  Speaker 1: make sure it's easy to do? If you're going to
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  Speaker 1: feature all the best known comedians, which is the smart
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  Speaker 1: thing to do for this channel. Obviously that's what people
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  Speaker 1: want to hear. And that's what you should do. You
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  Speaker 1: put in a couple of hours of the day where
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  Speaker 1: it's all new, unknown comedians. That's what you do. Watch.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he'll do. He'll come. If I can
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  Speaker 1: come up with this, he'll come up with this. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're going to see at some point. So, um, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: 60 Minutes, remember, they love picking on 60 Minutes because
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  Speaker 1: it's Barry Weiss running things now. You know, the left,
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  Speaker 1: the fake news goes after her as if she's some Trumpster.
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  Speaker 1: She's a Democrat. She's a liberal Democrat, always has been.
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  Speaker 1: She comes from the New York Times. She's not a conservative,
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  Speaker 1: but they hate her because she was, ooh, she tampered
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  Speaker 1: with 60 Minutes. But this past week, 60 Minutes got
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  Speaker 1: the biggest ratings of the season, 10.2 million, 10.2 million.
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  Speaker 1: That's even bigger than last season at this point, so
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710
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  Speaker 1: is the number. And if you're a new caller, we
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  Speaker 1: always love hearing from new callers. 3, 2, 1, 0, 7, 10. Now,
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  Speaker 1: 9 till noon weekdays. Mark Simone. More Mark. On 710WOR. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's take some calls. Let's go to Randall in Maryland. Randall,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing? Hi, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, do you know what's worse than picking your own
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  Speaker 2: pumpkins and apples?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Picking your own peas at one of your.
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  Speaker 2: Agricultural, pick your own.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a big thing down there in Maryland, picking peas?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's guys around here that do all kinds of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: strawberries and different stuff. My wife and I decided one
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning we'd go pick fresh peas. And we came
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  Speaker 2: back with a big basket full of them and came home,
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  Speaker 2: shelled them. And all we had was a big bowl
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  Speaker 2: of peas that weren't any good than frozen peas from
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  Speaker 2: the supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: What is wrong with you people? Picking pumpkins, picking apples,
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  Speaker 1: picking strawberries, picking peas. Now, stop it. Go over there
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  Speaker 1: to Whole Foods. Go over there to Morton Williams. Go
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  Speaker 1: over there. Go to Uncle Joseph's.
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of time on my hands.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Well, all right. Thanks for calling. Go
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  Speaker 1: into any good supermarket. They got 42 kinds of apples
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  Speaker 1: right in the front. You know, you got some orchard.
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  Speaker 1: They got their one kind of apples. It's got spots
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  Speaker 1: all over it and worms on it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Go to a supermarket. They've got all these different kinds
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  Speaker 1: of apples. They polish them. They shine them. They look
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  Speaker 1: much better. What do you want to be? Green acres?
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  Speaker 1: You're out in the woods picking your own fruit? Stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Barbara in Tarrytown. Barbara, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Let me check. Not bad. Not bad.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to let you know I am someone, and
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  Speaker 3: I know people, that also use C-A-S-H.
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  Speaker 4: Cash.
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  Speaker 3: You don't whip out a credit card.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let me get this straight. You're the
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  Speaker 1: lady in front of us in the supermarket line holding
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  Speaker 1: everybody up paying cash, and they've got to make changes.
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  Speaker 3: Too bad. Get there earlier. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people that use cash.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you know how to use a credit card?
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with cash.
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  Speaker 1: You have a credit card, right?
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  Speaker 3: But I don't use it. I have it for an emergency.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have it if you don't use it?
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  Speaker 3: Because my husband wanted a credit card.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: And he never used his.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, your husband won't let you use it, right?
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  Speaker 3: No, he's not going to let me use it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I heard that your credit card was stolen once
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  Speaker 1: and your husband didn't report it because the thief was
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  Speaker 1: spending less than you. Is this true?
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  Speaker 3: I heard that from who?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't have.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't have.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, why do you want to use cash?
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  Speaker 1: You have a phone, right? You got an iPhone.
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  Speaker 3: No, I do not. I'm on a landline phone that
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  Speaker 3: works wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're very old school, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm 86 years young.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right, 86. You're allowed to use cash.
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  Speaker 6: I'm allowed?
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  Speaker 3: Now you give me permission?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we grant you permission.
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  Speaker 3: And when I purchased a toast oven using cash, when
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  Speaker 3: I got my change, because I had given the cashier
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  Speaker 3: more than the item cost, I should have got... Part
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  Speaker 3: of my change should have been three pennies, but I
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  Speaker 3: didn't get those three pennies.
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  Speaker 1: These are not pennies anymore. First of all, what are
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  Speaker 1: you paying cash for everything for? What are you, Tony Soprano?
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  Speaker 1: You got to pay cash for everything?
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  Speaker 3: Because I like to use cash.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 6: I know people.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So, hey, thank you for calling. You sound
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  Speaker 1: like a very, very nice woman. I'm glad you called.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling. You see, this is the type.
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  Speaker 1: They just want to be annoying. They want to hold
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  Speaker 1: you up in line. They want to count out the cash.
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  Speaker 1: You got that credit card. Use it. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Mike in Long Island. Mike, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: So, Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I have a question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: As Ellison changes Paramount's name to Skydance, what happens to
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  Speaker 5: the recognizable arches with Paramount's name above the famous Bronson Gate?
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  Speaker 5: Entrance on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a very good question. That's a very good point.
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  Speaker 1: That famous Paramount entrance. You're right. We're going to have Skydance.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have like a ranch, like a Roy
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  Speaker 1: Rogers ranch. Skydance. It sounds like a company Robert Redford
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  Speaker 1: would create somewhere in Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a terrible name. That's a good question. Let's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: go to Michael in New Jersey. Michael, how you doing?
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Very good, Mark.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning. I wanted to.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: Mentioned the fact that with 20 million illegals coming across
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: the border two, three, four years ago, the Republicans should
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: be screaming from the rooftops about the affordability issue, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: especially in the sanctuary cities where these 20 million illegals
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: have been housed, driving up the rental rate. yeah like phenomenally.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Well that's what republicans did a few years ago it's
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: actually donald trump that came up with the issue of
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: affordability and came up with the word affordability he kept
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: using in the campaign it was his big issue and
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: democrats basically just stole it from them. Now they're using
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the word. But, yeah, it's a good point. With illegals,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: that's one reason our budget is double the budget of Florida.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Even though Florida has a bigger, bigger population, our budget
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: is double theirs. Illegals, migrants. By the way, our Medicare costs,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Medicaid costs are like triple what Florida's are. And that's
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: because of illegals that we're paying for. Let's go to Bill, Hamburg,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Bill, how you doing?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Well, I got a pulse, Mark. That's a good thing.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: That's good. That's good.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Two quick points. Big Trump supporter. People are saying
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: that the economy is good, but the 20s still keep
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: flying out of my wallet like they're single. Number two.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? Strip club? Why do they keep
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: flying out of your wallet?
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I agree with that earlier call, that lady. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: am a cash guy. Why do you pay cash?
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Do you have a credit card?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Why don't you use it?
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I use it if I buy a gift card.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a simple question. You're in the supermarket.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: You take the credit card. You hold it over the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: thing for one second. You're done. Cash, you got to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: take it out. You got to count it. You got
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to get changed. Why bother with all that?
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: But now there's a record of my credit card number.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Out there, flying around.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you are at a strip club.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Admit it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You don't want to be on the record.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Well, here's my second statement. The woman who was supposed
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: to be executed, it was a botched job. So I
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: hate to sound harsh, but why didn't they just take
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: her out in the courtyard and shoot her?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think they have that. I think there's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: four states that allow a firing squad. You can pick
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: your execution, apparently, in that state. Instead of electrocution, she
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: chose the lethal dose. So we'll see. But I want
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you to start using a credit card, all right?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not going to do that. Come on.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: What's the problem if you have a little record?
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I don't want my information flying around.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: You don't want your purchase recorded. All right. Well, what
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen? You think somebody's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: going to call you in two years from now? We
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: see here that you bought a can of peas in 2026.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: It's a supermarket. Who cares? Just use a credit card.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll talk to Ann Coulter, the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: great columnist, the best-selling author. We've got lots to talk
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: about with her. Coming up next on 710WOR. Welcome back
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: to The Mark Simone Show. Live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Well,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Ann Coulter, the best-selling author, the great columnist. Hey, also
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: make sure you watch her Rumble channel. She's got a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: great Rumble channel, lots of great stuff there. Also, follow
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: her on Twitter. And Substack's even better. You can go
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to anncoulter.substack.com. She's got videos and interviews and podcasts. Ann Coulter,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Fantastic.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: How are you, Mark Simone?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. I hate to bring this up,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: but didn't you go to Cornell?
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Well, yes, I did. I'm writing about it. I talked
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: about it in my sub-stack last week.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so the Cornell of when you were there, was
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: it a nice place? Safe?
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Well, as you'll see in my column, I think this
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: story has a different, there's a different moral to it
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: than what the New York Times is drawing here. No,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: the fraternities and sororities are great.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: You will admit that that is the single ugliest fraternity
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: house ever. It's hideously ugly.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Well, it's interesting that I, of course, was in a sorority.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: I guess about a third of the undergraduates are in
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: mostly fraternities. There are about 50 fraternities. At least when
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: I was there, I think there were only seven or
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: eight sororities. But they tend to hang out with the
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: same top two sororities, but hang out with the same, say...
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: ten fraternities, and I and none of my friends had
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: heard of this Chi Phi, so we sort of assumed
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: in looking at some of the pictures it was kind
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: of a mediocre fraternity. Tri-Del was definitely not a hot
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: girl sorority, and the reason I mention that, as I
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: discussed in my Rumble podcast, is that in real life
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: is always the exact opposite of the way Hollywood portrays
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: just utter sexual licentiousness. It's always the really good-looking people
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: engaging in polymory, as the New York Times calls it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Poly what?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Polyamory, I think they call it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Polyamory, that sounds good. So instead of saying, would you
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: like a threesome, I could say, how about a little polyamory?
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Yes, except you're too good-looking to propose it, and you
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: would not speak to a girl who would be willing
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: to accept it. And I just always think that is
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: worth pointing out, that there's an element of sadness and
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: desperation in all of these cases. But the true facts
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: of the case, which, oh my gosh, I mean, one
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: interesting thing about, I've been following very closely the New
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: York Times coverage, And, you know, they state in these
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: articles that they have the full 100-plus page file on
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: the case, and that is all the transcripts with Jane Doe,
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: the transcripts with the accused, et cetera, et cetera, interviews with,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: I guess, sorority mates and other members of the fraternity.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: But they're only ladling it out to us in a particular–
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: So I mean, some of the, I think, most important
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: points in this little saga did manage to work their
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: way into the media. So for example, a few days
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: after this really sordid affair, Jane Doe herself was texting
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: the one guy she was going to have sex with,
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: and showing how enthusiastic he was about seeing her. There
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: was no dinner, no flowers, no chocolate. She just hauls
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: herself three miles across campus to his fraternity to have
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: sex with him one night, and then he proposes a threesome.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: A few days later, huge furor breaks. It goes through
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: the sororities and fraternities like wildfire. She texts him saying,
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: People need to grow up. Sex and sexual relations are changing.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: People are going to be doing this all the time
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: in the future. And I'm very open-minded. So she was
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: really pushing that line pretty hard until it became clear
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: that no one was really buying this and her reputation
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: was shot. I mean, it did take her three weeks
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: to suddenly realize that. that she had been the victim
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: of an incredibly traumatic experience because, you know, that happens
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: all the time when people are raped, mugged, knifed. It
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: takes them three weeks to realize that it happened to them.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So is this how they behave at college now? What
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: happened to Richie Cunningham taking the girl to the malt shop?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: This is a date now at a college campus?
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: No, quite clearly it isn't, or it wouldn't have led
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: to the reaction among, at least among the fraternities and sororities.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, Cornell is a very, very big college. There
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: are seven different colleges at Cornell. As I've mentioned before,
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: only the arts and sciences, the one you get a
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: BA from, is the Ivy League school because they have
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: these weird schools like the agriculture school. and industrial relations school.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: There's even a school they had, because, you know, it's way,
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: way up north, and it used to be all male,
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: as many, maybe most colleges, well, all colleges, but most
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: colleges were. They needed to get some girls out to
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: the hinterland, so they had a school of home ec,
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: and the school was still there, but they've changed the
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: name of it to human ecology. Now, there are some
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: great courses in each one of these schools, these schools,
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: particularly if that's what you want to do in life.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: But my point is they're very, very different. They have
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: a different type of student, each one of these schools.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: And there are so, it's such a big school that
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: there are different, different groups. So what's going on in
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: the sorority fraternity world, the rest of the campus can
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: be completely oblivious to, um, And no, the sorority and
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: fraternity world, it's still Richie taking you to the mall shop.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this college president, you know, he said, well,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: we think we handled it correct. If you'd handled it correctly,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be front page news two years later every day.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: So obviously... I.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Don't think so. I think they did handle it correctly
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: from looking at everything. I mean, for one thing, there's
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: absolutely no risk that a college is not going to pursue...
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: a claim of rape with sufficient ferocity, as I mentioned
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: in my column today, because of their aggressiveness toward any
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: hint of misbehavior toward a co-ed. In the last 10 years,
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: colleges have been subjected to hundreds of lawsuits, by male
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: students brought up before these Title IX investigations. They've paid
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: out $ 100 million, approximately. So, no, you don't have to
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: worry about the Cornell administration scoffing this off and saying, oh,
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: boys will be boys. And in the end, what their
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: investigation found was that I guess two of them were
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: very guilty and got expelled entirely. Two of them were suspended.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: And two, on closer examination, even according to Doe herself,
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: did nothing at all. I don't know why she's throwing
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: them in here. They were trying to protect her if
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: anything was going amiss from all the information we have.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: And yes, nonetheless, they had to attend sexual harassment training
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: classes or something. But of course, the fraternity was banned.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Well, they did take a lot of action.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Permanently, forever. So no, there was aggressive action taken there.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: as any university, the most aggressive action any university would
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: possibly take. They're not the prosecutor. They don't prosecute these cases.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: They summarized it. She looked at the summary. She wrote
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: a lot of notes in it. She signed it, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: that was given to the DA. In her own words,
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: she only mentioned rape twice. Once was this really weird
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: thing she said about how she was thinking you know
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: if she took enough ketamine and passed out and they
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: had sex with her well then it could be called
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: rape uh... well that's a weird thing to think about
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: as you're continuing to do uh... ketamine and at the
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: end of everything she described which involved a lot of
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: her her her being the one to say oh we're
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: all consenting adults here uh... She says at the end
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: of it something like, which is repeated in every New
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: York Times article about this, every article as if this
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: is dispositive proof, the end she says something like, I'm 100%
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: sure I was raped. Well, that's kind of a conclusory
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: legal statement. I mean, I could be ripped off in
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: the purchase of a car and go to the, but
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: if I have an agreement and a contract and then
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: go and say, oh, I was robbed. No, that's not...
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: You can say that, but you're not the one making
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: a legal conclusion. What we get from you are the facts.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And the other problem they have is it's an election
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and Kathy Hochul's in trouble and using this with Letitia James,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: they're going to exploit the hell out of this, aren't they?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: It's not going to help Cornell.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: I think that may end up being a mistake if
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: more facts come out before Election Day. I mean, you
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: know how most of these things... have gone. It didn't
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: help Mike Nifong. He was doing the exact same thing
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: for the exact same reason. He had an election coming up.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: He was the prosecutor that had to go to prison
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: for how he went after the Duke lacrosse players. Total
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: BS case. But he was up for re-election, and that's
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: what was apparently driving him to this utterly mad behavior.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, Ann Coulter, we're out of time, but everybody
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: should follow her on Substack, anncoulter.substack.com. And then your Rumble channel,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: you've got new stuff every week, right, on Rumble?
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: Yes, though I may skip this week.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: What?
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: We'll put out an announcement. Well, I've got a lot
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: to do.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: All right, well, check out the Rumble channel anyway.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: The Yankees are really taking my time this week.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Well, that's just tonight, and then that should be over.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: I hope not, but you could be right.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And then make sure you follow her on Twitter. It's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Ann Coulter Twitter. AnnCoulter.substack.com Ann Coulter, thanks for being with us.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Good to talk to you, Mark Simone. Bye-bye.
• 33:47
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• 33:50
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• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, it's going to be a beautiful day today.
• 34:32
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• 34:37
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• 34:39
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• 34:42
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• 34:45
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• 34:52
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• 34:54
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• 34:56
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• 35:00
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• 35:03
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• 35:08
  Speaker 1: game was just a mess. Yankee errors, one error after another.
• 35:12
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• 35:15
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• 35:18
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• 35:21
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